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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:49 PM
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HIV Kenya protest at patent law
Police in Kenya have stopped hundreds of people living with HIV and Aids from demonstrating at the Indian High Commission in Nairobi.
The protests, also planned in Uganda and Tanzania, are over an Indian draft law which may block poor countries' access to anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs.

According to WTO rules, India is obliged to protect and enforce drug patents from the start of this year.

This will stop routine generic drug production, protesters say. <snip>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4361863.stm
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 08:53 PM
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1. Fuck them. The drug companies know that there are only a limited
amount of money for AIDS and way too many people have it. Paying full price will mean millions will die.

Fuck the drug companies!
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